By Jude Opara, Abuja
The Ondo State House of Assembly has declared support for the aspiration of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa to continue as the governor of the state.
Speaker of the Assembly, Rt. Hon. Olamide Oladiji stated this on Monday when he led members of the assembly to pay a courtesy visit on the National Chairman of the party, Dr. Abdulahi Ganduje and to thank him for the role he played in resolving the crisis that rocked the state prior to the death of the former governor, Rotimi Akeredolu.
Oladiji also said they were at the Secretariat to tell the National Chairman that they have resolved all their issues and that Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa gas done well so far and that they have resolved to back him to lead the party in the forthcoming 2024 governorship election in the state.
“And We are here also to tell him that as far as we are concerned, those of us around amongst our members and those that are on their way that we are fully in support of continuity of APC-led government. We are in support of continuity. We want APC to continue with the governments of Ondo State. We believe it will work out and we are giving them 100% assurance that the primary elections will be peaceful”.
On the open letter earlier written by the National Assembly caucus alleging that Gov. Aiyedatiwa was not handling the state well, the Speaker said: “In respect of the letter that some few members of the House of Representatives wrote to Mr. President. Members here, we disagree with the letter. And because we are the honourable member, we are the MHAs in our various state constituencies and they we have about almost 15 of us here present or you know what it means we have 22 APC members in the House of Assembly.
“We have 13 here now and another two are on their way coming. So that is about 15. And if we are telling you that the state under the leadership of Mr. Governor is at peace, you know, we mean what we are saying and then apart from that also, for now, the appointment he has done is just for six commissioners, and he did it you know senatorial by senatorial, two per senatorial district, of which it’s still very okay. Like those people that are complaining.
“I want to believe that they have not been coming to Ondo State to come and witness what is going on there. They are permanently in Abuja here. We are the ones that are closer to the grassroot, we know what is going on in Ondo State”.
